Starbucks apologized Saturday after an employee reportedly asked 6 officers to leave in one of the company's stores in a Phoenix suburb because a customer reported feeling unsafe.
Saturday after an employee reportedly asked six officers to leave one of the company's stores in a Phoenix suburb because a customer reported feeling unsafe.
"When those officers entered the store and a customer raised a concern over their presence, they should have been welcomed and treated with dignity and the utmost respect by our partners ," Rossann Williams said."Instead, they were made to feel unwelcome and disrespected, which is completely unacceptable."
The Tempe Officers Association said the officers had bought their drinks and were standing together before their shift started when a barista asked them to move out of the customer’s line of sight or leave. The barista knew one of the officers by name because he's a regular customer, according to the association.statement
Williams said Sunday that she had spoken to the police chief and was en route to Tempe to meet with her and employees at Starbucks.
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